Thesis Model Ventures Team Insights Build With Us
TEN

Building
Next-Gen
Companies.

We are not an accelerator, not a fund. We are a co-founder, conceiving, engineering, and scaling next-gen businesses from zero to one.

Our Ventures Build With Us
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Intelligent Architecture
Zero-to-One Building
Agriculture Technology
Deep Tech
Internet of Things
Consumer Internet
Financial Intelligence
Intelligent Architecture
Zero-to-One Building
Agriculture Technology
Deep Tech
Internet of Things
Consumer Internet
Financial Intelligence
Our Thesis
Every industry will be rebuilt by companies that treat artificial intelligence as their operating system not as a bolt-on feature, but as the very substrate of how they think, act, and scale. We build those companies.
— TEN Labs Venture Building Thesis, 2026
Building Digital Brands
Set up Intelligent Execution
Scaling Zero to One
What We Believe

The rules of
company building
have changed.

  • 01 AI is the new infrastructure. Just as cloud computing reshaped how software was built, AI is reshaping what software can become. Every company we build starts with this assumption baked into the architecture.
  • 02 Speed of iteration is a moat. The companies that win in the next decade will be those that can learn and adapt faster than the market. We engineer that velocity into our venture operating system.
  • 03 Great founders are rare; great systems scale. We build repeatable playbooks for company creation — combining elite human judgment with intelligent execution to ship what others cannot.
  • 04 The studio model is the future of venture. Traditional VC funds market timing. We create timing — identifying white spaces and building into them with precision, before the crowd arrives.
How We Build

The TEN
Venture Engine

Six stages from idea to a running company. Every stage is time-boxed, outcome-driven, and designed to eliminate the friction that kills most early ventures.

01
Market Discovery
We study markets, consumer behaviour, and emerging trends to find real gaps worth building into — before the competition catches up.
2–4 weeks
02
Idea Validation
We put the core idea in front of real people fast — testing demand, pricing, and willingness to pay before a single rupee goes into building.
72 hours
03
Product & Brand Design
We design the product, brand identity, and business model together — not one after another. Everything that matters gets shaped before the build begins.
1–2 weeks
04
Build & Launch
Our teams build and ship a working product in weeks, not quarters. Fast enough to learn from the market, solid enough to sell with confidence.
4–6 weeks
05
Growth & Scaling
We build the sales, marketing, and retention systems that turn early customers into a repeatable growth engine — revenue first, fundraising second.
Ongoing
06
Venture Independence
Ventures with proven traction are spun out with dedicated leadership and external funding, or scaled further as a studio subsidiary.
Series A+
The Intelligence Layer

How We Run
Every Venture

Artificial intelligence is not a tool we use. It is the operating system that sits beneath every venture — from ideation and architecture to growth and operations. This is how we move at a different speed.

AI Core INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT STRATEGY ENGINEERING EXECUTION GROWTH SYSTEMS OPERATIONS AUTOMATION LLM OPS DATA LAYER AUTO OPS GTM AI
Portfolio

Our Ventures

Real companies. Real revenue. Built inside the studio with AI as the operating system — not a feature.

01
🏠
Smart Home
IoT + AI
Hardware
Building 0→1

Heseos

Smart homes that think — not just listen.

Heseos is a full-stack smart home brand building the interface layer between physical spaces and AI intelligence. Touch panels, mobile app control, and ambient automation that anticipates resident behaviour — not just responds to commands.

TEN Labs is embedded as co-founder, owning product architecture, AI systems design, and the full digital stack from device firmware to cloud orchestration.

TEN Labs Role
Execution Partner, 0→1 Build
Technology
Energy Intelligence · Marketing AI · Growth Systems
Stage
MVP → Early Revenue
70% Completion
Visit Heseos
02
🛏
D2C Brand
Sleep Tech
E-Commerce
Live & Scaling

Sleepezee

Decades of sleep craft, rebuilt for the digital age.

Sleepezee was a traditional mattress and sleep products manufacturer with deep product expertise but no digital presence. TEN Labs rebuilt the entire brand from the ground up — new visual identity, personalised product recommendations, performance marketing infrastructure, and a digital-first customer experience.

We transformed a B2B factory into a nationally recognised D2C consumer brand in under 12 months.

TEN Labs Role
Brand Architect & Digital Builder
Technology
Recommendation Engine · Marketing AI · Ops Automation
Stage
Live & Growing
90% Completion
Visit Sleepezee
03
📈
Wealth Tech
AI Finance
Retail Investing
Building 0→1

Diverss

Institutional-grade wealth intelligence for every investor.

Diverss is a wealth tech platform co-built by TEN Labs alongside an external founder. It makes sophisticated investment strategies accessible to retail investors through AI-powered portfolio management, risk modelling, and personalised financial guidance.

We're building the infrastructure that democratises access to institutional-grade investing — starting with the Indian market, built for global scale.

TEN Labs Role
Founding Partner
Technology
Portfolio AI · Risk Models · NLP Financial Insights
Stage
Early Beta
50% Completion
Visit Diverss
What Our Portfolio Proves
Heseos Proves →

TEN Labs can build integrated hardware + software products with AI as the connecting intelligence layer — not just a software studio.

Sleepezee Proves →

Legacy businesses can be rebuilt as modern digital brands at speed — TEN Labs as a transformation engine, not just a builder.

Diverss Proves →

TEN Labs can co-build with external founders as equal technical partners, owning the AI and product infrastructure end-to-end.

Why TEN Labs

A different kind of
venture partner

Traditional VC Accelerator TEN Labs Studio
Involvement Level Board seat only 3-month cohort Deep co-founder
Technical Depth Advisors only Mentors only Built-in engineering team
Time to MVP 12–18 months 6–12 months 4–6 weeks
Operations Support None Basic resources Full shared services
Equity Taken 20–30% 5–10% Aligned co-founder model
Success Pattern Portfolio diversification Batch graduation Conviction-based building
Impact Stories

What we have
made possible

Housing Finance · BI

Lending intelligence engine for a housing finance company

Built an end-to-end business intelligence system tracking the full lending lifecycle. A custom insight engine surfaces collection efficiency trends, sales productivity benchmarks, and asset quality signals — giving leadership real-time visibility across operations.

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D2C · Brand Tech

From offline legacy brand to a full-stack D2C engine

Built a full D2C brand engine for Sleepezee — GTM strategy, product prototyping, market intelligence, content development, and competitor analysis all running in parallel. Now a repeatable playbook for launching D2C brands fast.

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Fintech · AI

Wealth manager-grade stock analysis for every retail investor

Built StockSense for Diversss — powered by Claude API — to deliver institutional-quality stock analysis to retail investors in seconds. Multi-factor scoring across ROCE/PE quality, revenue growth, technical signals, and FII/DII flows with intelligent, actionable verdicts.

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Energy Tech · IoT

Energy intelligence across every location, every floor

Co-developed a smart energy monitoring system with HESEOS for enterprises running multi-office campuses, coworking spaces, and hotels — tracking consumption at granular location level to drive efficiency and cut operational costs.

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How We Operate

We Build And Bring
Efficiency Using AI

Every function in the studio — from the first line of code to the last line of a pitch deck — is built for speed and efficiency. Not as a shortcut. As the actual operating model.

Product Development
Rapid MVP prototyping
AI-assisted architecture
Feature ideation sprints
UX flow generation
Product spec drafting
Engineering
Claude Code for full-stack builds
AI code review & QA
Model integration & APIs
Automated testing pipelines
Infra & deployment scripting
Go-To-Market
ICP definition & scoring
AI prospect research
Outreach sequence generation
Launch strategy frameworks
Pipeline velocity analysis
Marketing & Content
Blog & SEO content pipeline
Brand voice & copy
Visual & OG asset generation
Email & nurture automation
Social content calendars
Research & Operations
Competitive intelligence
Market & demand validation
Workflow & process automation
Meeting synthesis & action tracking
Reporting & insight generation
The People

Built by those who
have done it before

B
Baljeet Singh Khiva
Founder & Venture Builder

Baljeet Singh
Khiva

Founder, TEN Labs — Pune, India

Baljeet is a next-gen entrepreneur and systems thinker who founded TEN Labs to solve a fundamental problem: the world's best ideas are trapped inside people who lack the infrastructure to build them. TEN Labs is his answer — a venture studio that acts as a co-founder, combining elite AI engineering, capital efficiency, and a conviction-based building philosophy to create the next generation of technology companies.

Venture Studio AI Systems Company Building Product Strategy Growth
Advisors & Domain Experts
AK
Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar
Business Execution Mentor

Serial entrepreneur with multiple ventures built and scaled from the ground up. Brings hands-on experience in navigating early-stage chaos, enterprise sales, and building high-performance founding teams.

VS
Vinit Gawande
Vinit Gawande
Product & GTM Expert

IIT Bombay & IIM Bangalore alumnus with deep consulting roots at Booz & Company and global strategy firms. Expert in go-to-market architecture, B2B SaaS growth, and enterprise product strategy across India and Southeast Asia.

SA
Shreyansh Kankaria
Shreyansh Kankaria
Manufacturing Intelligence Expert

Heir to a multi-generational manufacturing legacy, bridging traditional industrial operations with modern AI infrastructure. Brings rare ground-level insight into supply chains, plant operations, and deep-tech adoption on the factory floor.

GS
Gurjeet Singh
Gurjeet Singh
Deep Tech Researcher

IIT Kharagpur alumnus and former researcher at NASA JPL, where he developed crop modelling and soil prediction systems. Brings frontier-grade scientific rigour to applied AI, remote sensing, and earth observation technologies.

Thinking Out Loud

Insights from the
studio floor

Deep Dive · AI in Fintech

Your Portfolio Now Has a Portfolio Manager. It's Powered by Claude.

Inside StockSense: how Diverss wired Anthropic's Claude API to a proprietary multi-factor scoring framework — ROCE/PE quality, growth momentum, technical composite, and institutional flow — to deliver PM-grade analysis to every retail investor.

Read Deep Dive
March 2025
Build Log · AI Tools

How We Built Diverss Using Claude Code & Cowork

A transparent account of how TEN Labs used Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork to build Diverss — from research and architecture to product iteration — and what it means for how we build every venture.

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March 2025
Case Study · Fintech

Diverss StockSense: Portfolio Intelligence That Thinks Like an Analyst

How TEN Labs built an AI-powered engine that analyses every stock across fundamentals, momentum, institutional flow, and live news — delivering one clear verdict per holding.

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March 2025
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Get In Touch

Let us build
something
extraordinary.

We are actively looking for brilliant founders with strong domain expertise and a conviction that AI will reshape their industry. If that is you, let's talk.

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